Turns out they will need every penny of that $32,000 they raised and then some to fight hunger in Pensacola.

DeDe Flounlacker, executive director at Manna, sees this time of year as the calm before the storm.

Flounlacker says demand at the main pantry on East Gonzalez Street has been tracking down a bit in recently, but demand at the Milton pantry is increasing. Especially among seniors, she says.

She says seniors are 12-13 percent of the people served at main pantry. At the pantry in Milton near Milton High School, it has been about 20 percent seniors. And they are serving between 250-300 people a week there.

Flounlacker expects the slack to pick up at all six of Manna’s locations if the cuts approved by the U.S. House of Representatives to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( aka SNAP or food stamps) make it into law.